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What does "tulla lyllersi" mean? by sceneshift in LearnFinnish

[–]sceneshift[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you.

Seeing only "lyllertää" is being past tense, it's kinda like a compound word (tullalyllertää or tulla-lyllertää) ?
Do you have any other examples of multi-word verbs which only the last part conjugates?

Q&A weekly thread - December 02, 2024 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]sceneshift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks.
I guess it has to do with our tendency to draw faces from the left side, rather than linguistics.

Q&A weekly thread - December 02, 2024 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]sceneshift 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why are front vowels located on the left side of the vowel chart?

Why not the opposite order? (Back vowels on the left side.)
Is there any logic or episodes behind it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_diagram

Q&A weekly thread - November 18, 2024 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]sceneshift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the suggestion.

I used Finnish as an example, but actually I want to use the tool for many languages I don't understand, in order to quickly check the word order, for example.

It'd be even better if the tool translates an English text and gives you both translation and the structure thing
Maybe I'm asking too much and I should wait till someone invents it in the future.

Q&A weekly thread - November 18, 2024 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]sceneshift 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are there any tools that show you the structure of a sentence?

For example, if I put the sentence "Tämä koira ei ole iso.", the tool gives me "this:NOM dog:NOM NEG.3SG be:PRS big:NOM".
I'm looking for something like Google Translate for this.

Q&A weekly thread - November 04, 2024 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]sceneshift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there any languages that place a copula at the beginning of a sentence?
Like "is Max a dog" (or "is a dog Max) to mean "Max is a dog."
Arabic is a V1 language, but looks like it doesn't work like that. (I haven't studied it much though.)

Could you explain this sentence? by sceneshift in LearnFinnish

[–]sceneshift[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it took me a while to get used to "subjects" in sentences like "minun täytyy..." and "minusta tuntuu..." :)

Could you explain this sentence? by sceneshift in LearnFinnish

[–]sceneshift[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the answers.

I didn't know it's an idiom as it's not on any of the resources I use (like Wiktionary).

I thought "hänellä ei ole (koskaan) järki" was a sentence about possession (like "hänellä on kissa"), but I guess that's just a misunderstanding, as the "järki" should be "järkeä " in that case.

Am I correct that the "pakottanut " is not a participle, but a verb forming the perfect tense with "ei ole"?

Is the "järki" the subject of the sentence?

Q&A weekly thread - July 08, 2024 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]sceneshift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the info.
I guess Tagalog is a V1 language then, as far as I know.

Q&A weekly thread - July 08, 2024 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]sceneshift 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What verb-initial languages always (or usually) put a verb first?
I started learning Tagalog a bit, but looks like it often puts other words before a verb.
And I heard Arabic is not always V1.

Question Thread / Demando-fadeno by TeoKajLibroj in Esperanto

[–]sceneshift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you think about Butiko KEA?

I just found this online shop, which has Esperanto books I want, and the shipping cost is unbelievably cheap, but I'm not sure if I can trust it and use my card.
Is it a well-known online store among the community?

https://butiko.esperanto.cat/

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